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Thursday, 17 January 2013

Steven Holl Architects have won the competition to design the new Ecology and Planning Museums in Tianjin, China. These will be the first structures in a cultural district planned for a new eco-city being built on the tide flats of Bohai Bay (south of Beijing) to home 350,000 inhabitants. Consisting of equal volumes of 20,000 square-feet each connected by a subterranean tunnel, the two buildings seek to interpret the yin and yang concept: the Planning Museum is conceived as the negative, or subtractive space, to the Ecology Museum’s positive, or additive characteristic.